The devotion Oakland receiver Antonio Brown exhibits to a helmet now prohibited by the NFL has put the focus on how other players and teams around the league handle this issue.

"I think all of our guys have embraced it,'' head coach Jason Garrett said. "I think the reasons why the league wants everybody to do that are pretty obvious.

"It's about player safety.''

Jason Witten was the only Dallas player affected this season. The Air Advantage by Schutt the tight end wore for his career -- affectionately known as Betsy -- was one of 11 models that landed on the banned list during his retirement. Long snapper L.P. LaDouceur had to change his helmet last season.

Ten players had parts of their helmets updated heading into this camp but were still allowed to wear the same model.

"If you go to the NFL owners' meetings like we do every March, the No. 1 topic by far, by far, we talk about it 95% of the time when we're there, is player safety,'' Garrett said. "What equipment we're wearing, what rules we have in the game, how we can alter those things to make the players' environment more safe. I think the league has done a great job advancing that cause over the last number of years.

"The helmet situation is understandable. Everybody likes their old pair of cleats, everybody likes their old shoulder pads, their old helmet. But I think the evidence is overwhelming. We presented that to our players and everybody has responded accordingly."

Witten is now wearing a Vicis helmet. He likes it, but he still misses Betsy.